The Republican journal., 1887-03-17
Election Echoes.
The runn shops must go.

The rum shops must go.
The Temple was 'lciilcl.
The rummies and oo,llcrs were left
The 'ho>s' was handsomely laid ont. Now let
him be inferred.
Now let the cit: affairs during the four years of
Taxpayer misrnle be fully ventilated.
Taxpayer rum lowed freely all day Sunday and
sunday night, but their spirits were gone when the
polls closed.
Had there been two more cranks in Belfast there
would have been Il tie in the vote for Mayor. Fools
| are dangerous sometimes.
Two temperance people in this city who couldn't
cons'ientously vote for either of the candidates
for Mayor cast their vote for one Gin(n).
a word of praise is due to Mr.. George +. Brack-
EFT for earnest and effective work in the temper
! ance cause Monday. The Good Templars of Maine
should know that their Grand Secretary did nobly.
The firm of Alexander Il Burgess, marketmcn,
Will continue to be represented in the city govern
ment. Councilman Robert Burgess, Taxpayer, re
tires, and is succeeded by David Alexander, Tax
reducer.
After the battle was over and the victory was
Mcdonald "Well, you've beaten us; now don't be
too hard on u.s. The reply of the City Marshal
was emphatic and to the point, and it was not COM
forting to the questioner.
a city official whose title is now prefaced with
an SEX offered all sorts of jobs in connection
with the water works. One man was offered the
board of fifty men; another the trucking: others
positions as time keepers and laborcrs. But it is
not or company as much it was, and in any
event these promises would have proved to be as
empty as the wind
Charles Richards, Taxpayer candidate for Con-
stable for Wari Two, was elected by personal APP
peas to voters. In conjunction with the hcelcr at
the Jail, the tramp business will be conducted at
the old sand.
I'm after the tramps, don't you know?
And the tramps upon the hill must go;
And rake i'll the stamps
For all the ID tramps
That give me ghost of a show
first let them try
\ dose of the cry"
Then give them swig of the 'eTnyter;;'
Ihey get glo-O-riously tight,
And then Pm all right
For my fees, don't you see, arc the greater
The Taxpayer headquarters on election day were
| in Il saloon on Church street. Here their funds,
across the street under to deposit the balets
and back again to receive the promised compensa-
ton. Some of the shrewder ones, who perhaps
were duped last year with Taxpayer promises, OK
;lcteu pay in advance. The money disbursctI ran
INTO the thousands. 1t is estimated that $3.50 as
expended in one w;trd-tO say nothing of the bar
rels of rum poured out-and an average Of over
five hundred dollars was paid for votes in the
other wards. In ward five, in cases where money
did not answer, bulldozing was resortcd to, and
promises more numerous than flies in the
dog days.
In several places in the city free rum was sup
piled by the Taxpayers all day Sunday and into
Sunday night. The scenes in the vicinity Of Ma
sonic Temple were dlisgraccful and the ncighbor-
hood was Stunned by decent people. While the
church bells were ringing the air was filed with
the slrieks and yells of the drunken victims OF
Taxpayer rum. One of the strikers of that party
who was just drunk enough to be noisy and quar-
have been badly used by the yOungstcr he pick
ell upon If his antagonist had not been hauled
OF. As it was he bears the marks of the fray Be-
tween nine and ten O'Clock there was half drunken
Taxpayer mob of two or three hundred collected
in the streets near the Temple, making noise that
could be heard all over the city. All the rum shops
in the city, and drug store that may Ike put in the
same category were run during the day and night,
and the ring supplied the money for the rot gut
they dispensed. Belfast never saw, and We trust
will never see again, scenes disgraceful.